Just as the Supreme Court was heading into its final arguments of what would become a dramatic and historic term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued a plea to her warring colleagues.
“This is not the time to amplify disagreement,” Barrett, a conservative and the second-most-junior justice, scolded the court’s liberal wing in a decision allowing former President Donald Trump to appear on presidential ballots despite his actions on January 6, 2021. “Writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up.” Four months later, it seems no one took her advice.
Barrett, who took the bench in October 2020, showed a streak of independence in her fourth term that some of her critics may have found surprising. That was particularly notable in the immunity decision, in which Barrett departed from her colleagues on a technical but potentially significant question of whether a jury can even consider evidence of Trump’s official actions in a potential trial. Barrett raised concerns that decision could “hamstring the prosecution.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
US Supreme Court Latest: Court sends Trump’s immunity case back to lower courtThe New Black View
Read more »
US Supreme Court Latest: Court sends Trump’s immunity case back to lower courtThe justices take the bench today to release their last few opinions of the term, including a closely watched case: Whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution for …
Read more »
Supreme Court reverses lower court ruling that state’s correspondence statutes are unconstitutionalThe Alaska Supreme Court has unanimously reversed a Superior Court ruling that had struck down Alaska’s correspondence school statutes as unconstitutional, restoring the program as it has existed for the last ten years.
Read more »
Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effectThe Iowa Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that blocked the state’s strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect.
Read more »
Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effectThe 4-3 ruling is a win for Republican lawmakers.
Read more »
Iowa Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effectThe court allowed Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they are pregnant.
Read more »